AI in the world - most important events from July 16, 2026

Today's Daily AI World Brief gathers the most important news about artificial intelligence from key regions of the world.

The focus is on business implementations, regulations, security, and the development of AI models.

Europe The Perplexity Trap: When Patent Law Makes Human Writing Look Like AI A study analyzes the problem of detecting human-written content in the context of patent law (EPO).

The authors showed that existing AI detectors have a high false positive rate (above 60%) when analyzing patent claims.

This suggests a structural problem, not just a limitation of models.

A linguistic regression model improving accuracy was proposed.

Why this matters: These results have significant implications for intellectual property law and the practice of filing patent applications.

They point to difficulties in distinguishing authentic human text from content generated by large language models, which could affect legal and business processes.